a small notebook (#1151)(an instance of Generic Litter made by Marcus)A small spiral notebook. Notes have been written in it in pen at some point. Quotes from something. Go to location of this object, Gaijin. [THE QUEST 7/2] [Da Avabhasa] Source of phenomena, mind, and the mechanics of attention The cognitive quality of actual post-death bardo experience depends directly on the depth and penetration of Spiritual practice when alive. [Kenneth Ring] the NDE may be an archetypal journey, a shamanic initiation into the imaginal realm. [As it has been suggested that millenialism is a near-death experience on a cultural scale....] Carlos Castaneda, the renowned student of Yaqui Indian 'sorcery', says that the life review may be conducted without any precipitating physical trauma. As Castaneda recounts in _The_Art_of_Dreaming_ (1993), unacknowledged personal content -- "filled to capacity with heavily loaded emotions like memories, hopes, fears" -- can sap a practitioner's volition, energy and perceptual fluid- ity. The only recourse is recapitulation, an exhausting sequential reconstruction of all events. |